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(25) And now as the whole Earth was, together with the Word, so was the Fruit also, but the Word remained in the Center of the Heaven, which is also in this Place hiddenly; and this Birth or Geniture caused the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits, out of or from the outermost, corrupt, and dead Birth or Geniture, to form the Body; and itself, viz. the Word or Heart of God, remained in its heavenly Seat, sitting on the Throne of Majesty, and filled the astral and also the mortal Birth or Geniture, but to them was the holy Life altogether incomprehensible.

(26) in the heavenly Pomp, the Sharpness of the Spirit, out of which, and whereby, the creaturely Being is so formed or constituted, that a heavenly Body may be framed, as also all Manner of Colours, Forms and Sprouts, or Vegetation.

(9) Further also, the most conspicuous fact of all theology--the God-formation of Jesus amongst us--is both unutterable by every expression and unknown to every mind, even to the very foremost of the most reverend angels. The fact indeed that. He took substance as man, we have received as a mystery, but we do not know in what manner, from virginal bloods, by a different law, beyond nature, He was formed, and how, with dry feet, having a bodily bulk and weight of matter, He marched upon the liquid and unstable substance; and so, with regard to all the other features of the super-physical physiology of Jesus. Now, we have elsewhere sufficiently spoken of these things, and they have been celebrated by our illustrious leader, in his Theological Elements, in a manner far beyond natural ability--things which that illustrious man acquired, either from the sacred theologians, or comprehended from the scientific, search of the Oracles, from manifold struggles and investigations respecting the same, or was instructed from a sort of more Divine Inspiration, not only having learnt, but having felt the pangs of things Divine, and from his sympathy with them, if I may so speak, having been perfected to their untaught and mystic union and acceptance. And that we may display, in fewest words, the many and blessed visions of his most excellent intelligence, the following are the things he says, concerning the Lord Jesus, in the Theological Elements compiled by him.

(15) Therefore then also the holy Birth or Geniture of God, as a special Body of itself, separated itself from the Wrath, and made the Firmament of Heaven, between the Love and the Wrath, so that the Birth or Geniture of the Stars stands in the Middle. Understand it thus; viz. with its outward Comprehensibility and Visibility it stands in the Wrath of Death, and with the new Birth rising up therein, which stands in the middle or central Seat, where the Closure of Heaven is, it stands in the Meekness of the Life.

(46) And this high Mind and Self-will was directly and wholly against the Birth or Geniture of God; for the Body of the Angels should abide and remain in its Seat, and be Nature, and as an humble Mother hold still and be quiet, and should not have the Omniscience, and own self rational Comprehensibility of the Heart, or of the deepest Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity; but the seven Spirits should generate themselves in their natural Body, as is done in God. [Holy Trinity]

(96) And as the Holy Ghost in Nature forms and images, or frames all, so the Spirit of the Angels also qualified or united with the Holy Ghost, and helped to form, frame, and image all, that all might be one Heart and Will, and a mere Delight and Joy: For the Angels are the Children of the great God, which he has generated in his Body of Nature for the multiplying of the divine Joy.

(49) For the human Flesh is, and resembles Nature in the Body of God, which is generated from the other six qualifying or fountain Spirits, wherein the qualifying or fountain Spirits generate themselves again, and show forth themselves infinitely, wherein Forms and Images rise up, and wherein the Heart of God, or the holy clear Deity in the middle or central Seat, generates itself above Nature in that Center, wherein the Light of Life rises up.

(71) III. The third Birth or Geniture in the Body of God, in or of this World, is under the Firmament of Heaven, hidden or concealed; and the Firmament of Heaven qualifies, mixes, or unites therewith, but yet not fully bodily, but creaturely, as the Angels and the Souls of Men do.